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Robotic surgery is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to change the way we think abouthealthcare for so-called "remote" communities, from the ocean depths to outer space This developing medical technology field employsrobots to hold the instruments while a surgeon operates a console to manipulate video-game-like controls. The robot typi...
Wincor Nixdorf, a German-based provider of IT applications for the banking and retail industries, has introduced its eServices platform in the United States for the first time Bits and pieces of the application, which connects Wincor Nixdorf service management with customers via an electronic network, have been available here before, says Steve Sim...
AOL has apologized for inadvertently posting on the Internet search data of 658,000 AOL members that used the proprietary software to conduct searches over a three month period. The data, which has since been taken down, had been collected for academic researchers and did not directly connect search terms to users' names Bloggers who found the data...
Sony is looking to take advantage of the popularity of instant messaging (IM) with its new handheld device unveiled this week. The Sony Mylo is capable of IM and Internet access through any available, open wireless network Offering a 2.4-inch color LCD screen and pullout QWERTY keyboard, Mylo works with popular IM services, including Google Talk an...
Making a bid for a greater share of the digital music space, mobile phone giant Nokia said Tuesday it had reached an agreement to buy music distributor Loudeye in a deal worth US$60 million Finland-based Nokia said it would pay $4.50 per share for Loudeye, more than twice what the stock was worth at the close of trading Monday....
AOL on Monday launched a new antivirus program called Active Virus Shield for all of its users to access at no cost Powered by Internet security solutions titan Kaspersky Lab, Active Virus Shield offers detection technology designed to stop viruses, spyware, malware and Trojans before they attack, as well as real-time scanning of files and e-mail....
In the Web search world at least, the rich may continue to get richer.Google said late Monday it had signed a US$900 million deal to become the exclusive search provider for social networking giantMySpace.com and other Web properties owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, beating out its major rivals in the process MySpace has been seeking a search p...
The first article in this series focuses on eNom's acquisition of BulkRegister, and how it would change the marketplace for domain name registration. It details the state of the industry and how it has transformed from the early startup days into a revenue-generating machine. This concluding article will expand on those thoughts and delve into what this means for consumers going forward...
For technology dependent companies, risk comes in many forms. While the traditional information security risks are often the first that spring to mind, businesses with extensive collections of software face additional risks, especially when those applications become numerous In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Guy Hoffman, chief ex...
As senior director of product marketing for the identity practice at Sun Microsystems, Rob Beauchamp remembers -- and it was not that long ago -- when integration was considered a tactical process with the objective of knitting together systems and applications as quickly as possible To be sure, that is still a primary goal for such projects. Howev...
Trading digital electronics for mechanical parts has given camera makers an opportunity to tinker with the design of their wares in inventive ways, none more so than Kodak The Rochester, N.Y.-based company that brought film photography to the masses -- by making cameras easy to use and film easy to load -- is continuing its friendly photography tra...
The wireless data transfer capabilities of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are intended to speed and assist transactions, but it appears the RFID chips of new U.S. passports are speeding and assisting circumvention, according to a German expert's demonstration at last week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas DN Systems consultant ...
Earlier this year, IBM announced that its joint sales revenues with mid-market independent software vendors (ISVs) reached US$1 billion worldwide This is just one measure of the success IBM has realized in the SMB partner strategy it launched in 2002, finds a new report by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners....
Rep. Cliff Sterns, (R-Fla.), has proposed legislation that aims to involve the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the creation of rules governing video game ratings The "Truth in Video Game Rating Act," or H.R. 5912, would usurp the authority of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), a self-regulatory body established by the Entertainment ...
Google said it has no intention of entering the digital music space, squelching mounting speculation that it would use its role as a search player to become a competitor to Apple's iTunes Music Store and other music download offerings With numerous initiatives feeding rumors that it would enter the retail music download arena in the near term, Goog...
Google is issuing warnings to Web surfers when they are about to click on a Web site that could be hiding malware able to infect their computer Google has launched this initiative as part of its partnership inStopBadware.org, a malware clearinghouse established by Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet & Society together with Oxford University's...
Moving to further assert its role as a distributor of video on the Web, Google said Monday it had reached an agreement to deliver video clips and shows from Viacom's MTV Networks to users, along with video advertising Google and MTV Networks described the partnership as a test of "an innovative video distribution model that will serve consumers, We...
While some applauded Microsoft for displaying its new Vista operating system among some of the world's top software security researchers at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week, others set out to give the software giant a black eye Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska of Singapore-based Coseinc showed an overflowing room of onlooker...
The moves by the federal government to regulate social networking sites -- like MySpace.com and others -- may cause venture investors to look overseas, and lead to a drop in early stage investments among such sites in the U.S. The House of Representatives last month passed a bill, called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), but the Senate has yet to move on the controversial legislation, which is ostensibly aimed at protecting youngsters from sexual fiends lurking on the Internet...
Global shipments of scanners that read wireless tags used to track products in business supply chains climbed 14 percent in this year's first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, according to figures released Wednesday by ABI Research, of Oyster Bay, N.Y The research firm also revealed that total scanner shipments in 2005 reached 35,000....
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